Men at Law Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

A Man's Castle

Wed, Sep 16, 197060 mins

An elderly man invades an exclusive party, singles out one guest, and shoots him dead. When The Storefront Lawyers visit him in jail, he says only, "I killed him because he stole my house." The man turns out to be correct, after a fashion.

Episode 2

The Law Can't Touch Him

Wed, Sep 23, 197060 mins

An abused wife asks the Lawyers' help in divorcing her violent husband. The problem: she can't prove how violent he can be.

Episode 3

Murph Collins vs. Tomorrow

Wed, Sep 30, 197060 mins

Murph Collins, iron cutter, loses his job to affirmative action. Against the Lawyers' advice, he visits his last job site. That night, the site blows up, and he is the prime suspect.

Episode 4

The Electric Kid

Wed, Oct 7, 197060 mins

The former Electric Kid, a con artist, pulls a big con against his landlord after one thing too many goes wrong in his apartment. But the landlord's own legal position is even weaker.

Episode 5

The Emancipation of Bessie Gray

Wed, Oct 14, 197060 mins

A middle-aged black woman, failing to hold a job as a nurse's aide, sues the head of the "Expert Training School" where she got her training.

Episode 6

Survivors Will Be Prosecuted

Wed, Oct 21, 197060 mins

A Mexican farm laborer is found dead and clerk Roberto Alvarez is jailed for her murder. David Hansen begins his own investigation to free his employee and uncovers a illegal operation involving alien agricultural workers.

Episode 7

Easy to Be Hard

Wed, Oct 28, 197060 mins

A welfare case agent, after throwing a woman off the welfare rolls, commits rape against her. Or did he?

Episode 8

Where Are You At?

Wed, Nov 4, 197060 mins

Deborah Sullivan, in defending a Hispanic man accused of a string of arson fires, falls in love with the ADA prosecuting the case.

Episode 9

Shadows of Doubt

Wed, Nov 11, 197060 mins

Episode 10

This Is Jerry, See Jerry Run

Wed, Nov 18, 197060 mins

A young man's dyslexia, never suspected, much less addressed, lands him in financial trouble and makes him unemployable.

Episode 11

The Pastures of Hell

Wed, Nov 25, 197060 mins

The white pastor of a downtown mission clashes with a black activist who frequently bombs the mission. Then someone kidnaps the activist's son. Who, after his rescue, accuses the pastor of the kidnapping.

Episode 12

Where Were We, Waldo?

Wed, Dec 9, 197060 mins

An illiterate man's arrest record makes him "hard-core unemployable." Even the Lawyers can't help him until he gets a grip on his emotions.

Episode 13

First... We Get Rid of the Principal

Wed, Jan 13, 197160 mins

A secondary-school student protest results in a dead administrator and a student on trial for murder.

Episode 14

The Climate of Doubt

Wed, Feb 3, 197160 mins

Devlin McNeil takes the former Storefront Lawyers under his wing in a case involving a college student suspected of bludgeoning a police officer to death during a campus riot.

Episode 15

Marathon

Wed, Feb 10, 197160 mins

A marathon encounter session goes awry, leading one student to dive his car off a pier and drown. The widow hires Devlin McNeil to sue the psychiatrist involved--and Devlin lays his life on the line by joining the still-ongoing session.

Episode 16

The Dark World of Harry Anders

Wed, Feb 17, 197160 mins

A heavy-handed financier takes over a movie studio and uses various means, lawful and unlawful, to compel the studio to turn a motion-picture project into a porn project.

Episode 17

Hostage

Wed, Feb 24, 197160 mins

The boyfriend of a girl on trial for planting a fatal bomb, takes Deborah Sullivan hostage in the firm's law offices.

Episode 18

The Truth, the Whole Truth - And Anything Else That Works

Wed, Mar 3, 197160 mins

Family man Schuyler Yates comes home from work one day to find detectives in his house accusing him of being a serial sex murderer. Nor does it help when the survivor of the last attack identifies him by voice.

Episode 19

Let the Dier Beware

Wed, Mar 17, 197160 mins

A woman goes to take her father out of a controversial clinic. Days later, the clinic chief physician winds up dead, and she is suspect.

Episode 20

The View from the Top

Wed, Mar 24, 197160 mins

Ultra-rich Cole Deland hires Devlin McNeil after a security guard at one of his hotels, finds him walking away from a dead woman. Was that his wife? Or is his alibi actually evidence of a real crime he committed?

Episode 21

Yesterday Is But a Dream

Wed, Mar 31, 197160 mins

Devlin and the Storefront team defend a woman who shot her husband while in a drug-induced daze--that the husband put her in.

Episode 22

This Money Kills Dreams

Wed, Apr 7, 197160 mins

Episode 23

One American

Wed, Apr 14, 197160 mins

Personal protests against war by a small group of misunderstood, passionate young men, finds the militants behind bars.